my life yesterday i befriended a 70 year old man who's been through what i in my youth call EVERYTHING but what he talked about most, what made him tear up was not vietnam or meeting kennedy or ginsberg or practicing criminal law it was raising his two daughters and the things his wife did and said to him over the years it made my worries feel small, and it made me less ashamed to think so much of my partner he calls me 7ayaty-- which in arabic means 'my life'-- i told him about my new friend and said, 'you're my life too' |